{"id":15284,"date":"2021-08-12T13:08:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/?p=15284"},"modified":"2021-08-12T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T13:08:33","slug":"nimra-aqeel-reaches-semi-finals-in-kp-independence-day-squash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/nimra-aqeel-reaches-semi-finals-in-kp-independence-day-squash\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimra Aqeel reaches semi-finals in KP Independence Day Squash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR,   Top seeded Nimran Aqeel stunned her strong rival Kulsoom in a marathon five sets battle in the first quarter-finals and took berth into the semi-finals of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Independence Day Boys and Girls Squash Championship being played here at Qamar Zaman Squash Complex on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the overall Independence Day Sports Festival, the squash attracted a good number of players. Nimra Aqeel defeated her strong rival Kulsoom Khan in the marathon five sets battle with 10-12, 11-9, 12-10, 9-11 and 11-9. The match lasted for 39 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Both Nimra Aqeel and Kulsoom played well and exhibited some good displays of shorts with superb nick. Drops and smashes were also witnessed.<\/p>\n<p>After Nimra\u2019s victory, her younger sister Hira Aqeel also recorded victory against Zohra Abdullah, the younger sister of Kalsoom Abdullah in another thrilling match with score of 11-9, 10-12, 11-8 and 11-9 (3-1). The quarter-final match lasted for 28 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In the third quarter-final, Maira Hussain beat Manahil Aqeel by 3-0 with score of 11-9, 15-13 and 11-9 in 22 minutes and in the last quarter-final second seeded Sana Bahadur defeated Kainat Amir of Pakistan Army in another thrilling match, the score was 8-11, 12-10, 12-10, and 11-9 in 27 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In the first round of the boys category Waqas Mehboob beat Wazir Muhammad 3\/0, the score was 11\/4 11\/3 11\/2, Waqar Mehboob beat M Bilal 3\/1, the score was 11\/6 11\/5 3\/11 11\/7 (28mint), Saddam Ul Haq beat Abbas Shoukat 3\/1, the score was 3\/11 11\/9 13\/11 14\/11 (55mint), Noor Zaman beat Huzaifa Zahid 3\/0, the score was<br \/>\n11\/9 11\/7 11\/8 (22mint), Bilal Zakir beat M Samiullah 3\/0, the score was 11\/7 11\/7 11\/8 (20mint), Ahsan Ayaz beat Uzair Shoukat 3\/0, the score was 11\/9 12\/10 11\/9 (35mint), Zeeshan Zeb beat Tanveer Qamar 3\/0, the score was 11\/5 11\/1 11\/4 (17mint), M Ammad beat Zahir Shah 3\/2 in a thrilling match wherein both the players stretched to five sets battle lasted for 59 minutes. The score was 13-15, 12-10, 11-9, 10-12 and 11-9.<\/p>\n<p>In the last qualifying of the Boys category, M Bilal beat Nouman Khan 3\/0, the 11\/7 11\/7 11\/4 (20mint), Huzaifa Zahid beat Nasir Khan 3\/0, with score of 11\/2 11\/7 11\/8 (18mint), M Samiullah beat Mutahir Ali 3\/0, the score was 11\/9 11\/6 11\/5 (23mint), M Ammad beat Arbab Aizaz 3\/1, the score was 4\/11 11\/4 11\/7 11\/2 (28mint).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR, Top seeded Nimran Aqeel stunned her strong rival Kulsoom in a marathon five sets battle in the first quarter-finals and took berth into the semi-finals of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Independence Day Boys and Girls Squash Championship being played here at Qamar Zaman Squash Complex [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9534,1480,9533],"class_list":["post-15284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-sports-news","tag-independence-day-squash","tag-kp","tag-nimra-aqeel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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